Eight-Penny News

New baseball stadiums planned
for Chicago and Baltimore will
look more like parks built at the
turn of the last century than the
1980s. The reminiscent design of
both stadiums, Chicago's
Comiskey II and Baltimore's
Camden Yards, will capitalize on
the nostalgia that seems part of
baseball's recent record popularity.
In Chicago, the White Sox
will open their 1991 season in
Comiskey II, a near-clone of the
aging original. The architects
(Rick deFlon and Joe Spear of
Kansas City's Hellmuth, Obata,
& Kassabaum) have designed a
stadium of identical dimensions,
but they've modernized the traffic
flow and designed swanker
locker rooms. There will be a
smaller overhanging roof to
eliminate the need for the sightrestricting
supporting piers.
Otherwise, the stadium remains
essentially the same, and